ABSTRACT
What are we to make of appeals to fi ttingness to explain divine actions? This is a question that can reasonably be raised concerning many philosophers and many works. In this essay, though, I intend to limit myself to one philosopher (St. Anselm) and (for the most part) to one work-his famous investigation of the Incarnation still commonly known by its Latin title Cur Deus Homo (henceforth simply CDH). As we shall see, the precise connections Anselm intends to draw between what is fi tting and what God does are not easy to discern, especially if one wishes to ascribe to Anselm a view that is philosophically coherent and theologically tenable.
